User manual MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE

[. . . ] Contribute Manual · · Using Templates with Contribute Navigating to web pages Creating a new page from a Template o Editable Regions o Optional Regions Editing existing web pages Editing page elements not in editable areas Using Cascading Style Sheets in Contribute Adding Word and Excel documents to a website Working with tables in Contribute Making hyperlinks with Contribute Adding an image to a page Adding keywords and a description for a page Saving Drafts Canceling a draft or new page Publishing Your Page · · · · · · · · · · · Using Templates with Contribute How templates work A developer makes a template in Dreamweaver by creating a page and adding content that he/she wants to be present on all pages that use the template. A simple template might only contain a table with the logo and a background color for the page. A more complex template may have a full navigation system in place, additional content across the top of the page, and a footer containing copyright information along the bottom. The power of templates, though, lies in the various methods of editing or modifying certain sections of the page. [. . . ] There are check boxes that allow you to include headers and hooters and other options. Click Apply to test the options and click OK when you are satisfied with the table. Making hyperlinks with Contribute One reason the World Wide Web is easy to use is because it allows you to easily link from your page to any other web page with a single click. A link, technically called a hyperlink, is a small instruction added to the page that tells the browser to go to the specified page when someone clicks on the link. Making links is easy, and this document explains the different kinds of links and how to make them in Macromedia Contribute. Basic Link Types There are 3 basic types of links on the web: · · · Links to other pages on your web site. These are called relative links since they are within the same site. These are called absolute links because you need to specify the full address to the site. These links will open up a new email window with the person's address already filled in. Making links in Contribute Making a link in Contribute is easy. It is a matter of selecting the text or image that you want to make the link and then telling Contribute where you want to go with that link. Select the text or image that you want to make the link. Text and images are the most popular items to make into links. Other objects can be links, but you want to make it obvious that your object is a link. This is why text is blue and underlined and the cursor changes into a hand. Click on the Link button and select Drafts and Recent Pages. Linking to Drafts and Recent Pages Drafts are Contribute pages that you are working on but have yet to publish. They will show up in the Places Window in the top left corner of Contribute. Recent pages are just that: pages that you have visited recently, like a history list. Click on Link > Drafts and Recent Pages. You will see a list of drafts and recent pages in the Insert Link Dialog. Select the page in which you want to link. The Preview Window will show the page that you have selected. [. . . ] Publishing an existing page as a new page 1. Browse to an existing page, then click the Edit Page button. Select File > Publish as New Page The Publish as New Page dialog box appears. Change the page title for the draft, if you want. [. . . ]